Students can create Word Webs with word meanings and show their inter connections
The idea is to involve students to collaborate online.
Word Venn Diagrams
Students can create Venn Diagrams to show overlapping meanings of similar words
The idea is to involve students to collaborate online.
Learning a language is a sensation and experience for a child. According to 'Series Method' language learning is a matter of transforming perceptions into conceptions, using language to represent what one experiences. Language is not an arbitrary set of conventions but a way of thinking and representing the world to oneself. It is not a conditioning process, but one in which the learner actively organizes his perceptions into linguistics concepts.A child tries to represent the world to himself using the sounds and sights in his world. In language learning, learner actively organizes his perceptions into linguistics concepts. This leads to a second insight into memory called "incubation". Linguistic concepts take time to settle in the memory. The learner must use the new concepts frequently after the presentation, either by thinking or by speaking, in order to master them.
Language learning events are happenings where content and context go together with the correct vocabulary and grammatical pattern.
Dogme is a communicative approach to language teaching and encourages teaching without published textbooks and instead focusing on conversational communication among the learners and the teacher.
Key Principles of Dogme
Engagement: students are most engaged by content they have created themselves.
Interactivity: the most direct route to learning is to be found in the interactivity between teachers and students and amongst the students themselves.
Dialogic processes: learning is social and dialogic, where knowledge is co-constructed
Scaffolded conversations: learning takes place through conversations, where the learner and teacher co-construct the knowledge and skills
Emergence: language and grammar emerge from the learning process. This is seen as distinct from the ‘acquisition’ of language.
Affordances: the teacher’s role is to optimize language learning affordances through directing attention to emergent language.
Voice: the learner’s voice is given recognition along with the learner’s beliefs and knowledge.
Empowerment: students and teachers are empowered by freeing the classroom of published materials and textbooks.
Relevance: materials (eg texts, audios and videos) should have relevance for the learners
Critical use: teachers and students should use published materials and textbooks in a critical way that recognizes their cultural and ideological biases.
Learning by teaching method
The Silent Way is a discovery learning approach, invented by Caleb Gattegno in the 1950s. The teacher is usually silent, leaving room for the students to explore the language. They are responsible for their own learning and are encouraged to interact. The role of the teacher is to give clues, not to model the language.
'Blended Learning' refers to learning taking place while the focus is on other activities.
Mind Mapping allows idea visualizations, a quality essential for survival in the Knowledge Era. Mind mapping of words can be done to teach words as networks of related information.
Learning English Online (LEO)
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Teach English Online (TEO)
Business Ideas Research & Development BIRDs of eSchool Kerala: Asianet News
Global Entrepreneur Online (GEO)
12 year old teaches teachers to teach online
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Word Webs
Word Venn Diagrams
Learning a language is a sensation and experience for a child. According to 'Series Method' language learning is a matter of transforming perceptions into conceptions, using language to represent what one experiences. Language is not an arbitrary set of conventions but a way of thinking and representing the world to oneself. It is not a conditioning process, but one in which the learner actively organizes his perceptions into linguistics concepts.A child tries to represent the world to himself using the sounds and sights in his world. In language learning, learner actively organizes his perceptions into linguistics concepts. This leads to a second insight into memory called "incubation". Linguistic concepts take time to settle in the memory. The learner must use the new concepts frequently after the presentation, either by thinking or by speaking, in order to master them.
Language learning events are happenings where content and context go together with the correct vocabulary and grammatical pattern.
Dogme is a communicative approach to language teaching and encourages teaching without published textbooks and instead focusing on conversational communication among the learners and the teacher.
Key Principles of Dogme
Learning by teaching method